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www.beatbearing.co.uk
Have set up a project site for the BeatBearing: www.beatbearing.co.uk The main feature is a forum for sharing tips on making your own BeatBearing. The aim is to add more content over…
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BeatBearing on BBC Radio Ulster
Last Friday, after the BeatBearing was shown in the Irish News newspaper, I was invited onto the ‘Arts Extra’ show on BBC Radio Ulster. This experience has made me realise quite how…
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BeatBearing in the Irish News
The BeatBearing is featured in an article on page 5 of the Irish News today. The title is “Scientist beats Bush, Britney and Paris Hilton all hands down” referencing the number of…
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BeatBearing demo at NordiCHI’08
.This shows the interactive demo of the BeatBearing at NordiCHI’08. The paper that accompanied the demo can be downloaded from:http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/~pbennett/publications.htm Thanks to everyone who played the BeatBearing in the video! (this video…
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BeatBearing Interactive demo at NordiCHI’08
You can download the paper that accompanied the interactive demo of the BeatBearing at NordiCHI’08 here:http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/~pbennett/papers/Pete2008BeatBearing.pdf(clicking on the images above gives you a jpeg preview and not the real thing) At the…
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“Designing stylistic interactions” workshop at tweak
Just got round to uploading a page on the “designing stylistic interactions” workshop that Michael Gurevich and myself ran at tweak. Have a look here:http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/~pbennett/publications/workshops/tweak.html
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‘Stylistic Interactions’ workshop at TWEAK
Myself and Michael Gurevich are running a workshop at the TWEAK interactive art and live electronic music festival. The festival will be held in Limerick running from the 22nd to the 27th…
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BeatBearing uncovered
These three pictures show how the BeatBearing is set up, including how the wires pass through the channels in the perspex base.
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Bliptronic3000 video
Here’s a video of the Bliptronic3000 installation in the Big Blip exhibition held in Brighton 2006. This was a joint project between myself, Sean Toru and Lisa Tutte-Scali.
Totally going to steal this “swivel reverse instrument swap” for next time I’m playing out. I think Ada’s picking up her new drums I brought back from New Orleans quicker than I’m getting the hang of the pocket trumpet 😅
#swivelreverse #spin #longwayround #drumsolo #drums #glockenspiel #somewhereroundthere
AMBIENT CAFE
Saturday 3pm-6pm (tomorrow!)
@friendlyrecords on North St
Join us for an afternoon of eclectic ambient from Muzak Concrète DJs (@noodsradio) interwoven with tabletop experiments from guest local ambient artists including @looseforms and Nick Janaway. A tapestry of cascading synths, bleeps & celestial vibrations, field recordings, intricate wallpaper muzak, earthy drones, textural trips, ambient & ambience. We make a space for indirect listening and background enjoyment. Bring your knitting, a book or chess set, pull up a chair and immerse yourself in the music.
#ambientcafe #muzakconcrete #tabletopgig #bristollivemusic #friendlyrecords #animation
#madeinlooom #popbyforacoffee #gentlejetlaggedvibes
Had the afternoon free after the CHI’22 conference wrapped up so did the obvious thing and shlepped across town to New Orlean’s brass specialist @neworleanstrumpets to buy a pocket trumpet. Turns out New Orlean’s oldest tree was round the corner so ended up having a first play sat on it’s trunk (with new mute firmly in place) hoping to invoke some kind of jazz skills transfer magic but instead mildly disturbing a dog walker who strayed too close. Did get an album promo shot though 😅
#neworleans #oldesttree #newinstrument #seriousjazzface #trumpet #pockettrumpet
Happy Birthday Ada – one today!
Bonus fist bump superhero pose photo from when she was a few days old this time last year and looked more like a potato. The efforts to recreate the pose more accurately this year were futile 😅
💛 🌸 ✊ 🥳
#happybirthday #cherryblossom
AMBIENT CAFE
@friendlyrecords
Saturday 7th May
3pm-6pm
Come and join us for an afternoon of eclectic ambient from Muzak Concrète DJs (Noods Radio), interwoven with tabletop sets from guest local ambient artists. Undulating synths, cosmic vibrations, field recordings, intricate wallpaper muzak, deep drones, astral jazz, ambient and ambience. We make a space for indirect listening and background enjoyment… Bring your knitting, a book or chess set, pull up a chair and immerse yourself in the music.
@friendlyrecords @noodsradio #ambientcafe #bristolmusic #livemusicbristol #ambientmusic #ambient #muzakconcrete
Triple bill Easter Sunday art crawl. Audio-visual installations and sculpture at the @h.eadless group show in @theislandbristol … a working trebuchet art-flinger at @spikeisland … and piles of salt (sand?) and fresh oil painting at @arnolfiniarts … rounded off with an ice cream in the park while Ada critiques the shows via the medium of stick twirling.
#art #artsunday #audiovisual #sculpture #galleryshow #artcrawl #bristol #sticktwirling
Day trip to Cwmdu to hike in the Black Mountains for @carrie_brassley_yoga’s birthday. Decided to go off piste and take a shortcut up what felt close to a 45° burnt bracken slope. Ada didn’t seem too phased by this 😅
#cwmdu #blackmountains #hiking
Freshwater West 1986 & 2022
Rather satisfying hunting down the same rocks I had a sandwich on 36 years prior age 4. Props to my dad for digging out the old photo and sparking off the rock hunt!
#freshwaterwest #rocks #beach #erosion #oldphoto #thenandnow
Made the most of being on strike last week by heading to Pembrokeshire for a few days. Got lucky with some great sunset surf on Tuesday too!